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Asked by Kiera to Sharon, Sahra, Matthew, Jenn, Candace on 8 Mar 2017.
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Matthew Bainbridge answered on 8 Mar 2017:
I’ve found new disease genes — that’s neat Sometimes those genes cause disease in a way we never imagined.
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Xueyuan Jiang answered on 8 Mar 2017:
The fact that each chromosome has its own spot in the nucleus! I thought they are just randomly arranged there.
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Sahra Uygun answered on 8 Mar 2017:
Plant genomes are very diverse. For example cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) genome has 8 sets of chromosomes (8 duplicate copies of the genome!!). Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) has 6 sets of chromosomes.
Apart from plants, honeybee genetics is also fascinating!! The queen bee has two sets of chromosomes and the drones-male bees have all their genome from the queen bee and they have only 1 set of chromosomes.
In general polyploidy (having multiple sets of chromosomes) is very interesting 🙂
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Candace Lewis answered on 10 Mar 2017:
We have around 86 billion brain cells (called neurons) and each one has around 40 thousand connections! The human brain is the most complex system we know of! Information can travel through our neurons at speeds of up to 260 miles per hour!
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Jennifer Hintzsche answered on 10 Mar 2017:
I helped find a new mutation in a subset of melanoma called mucosal melanoma. We found out this mutation is what causes the cancer and we’re testing treatment for it in mice now to see if we can treat it in patients!
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